The Toys of Main Street: Conjectural Discussions on What and Why
Author(s): Alexandra C Snyder
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Working on the 19th-Century" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Lindenwood University has recovered children’s toys from several sites on Main Street in St. Charles, Missouri. While not high in number, the types of toys have raised some questions as to why the excavations have located certain toy types and not others. Is it due to purposeful/accidental deposition, or maybe socio/economic factors? This paper will discuss the inventory of toys and suggest some rationale for their appearance in these contexts.
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The Toys of Main Street: Conjectural Discussions on What and Why. Alexandra C Snyder. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449102)
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Keywords
General
Toys
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Historical
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 291